In the details available to Yahoo! Sports, Paul goes the Lakers, Pau Gasol to the Rockets, and Houston still sends Kevin Martin, Luis Scola, and a 2012 first-round pick to the Hornets. The main changes in the deal, originally nixed by the NBA, will come between New Orleans and the Lakers, sources say.
i still dgi -- hollinger is speculating that it means bynum is getting flipped for okafor
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
CP3 + kobe - how is CP3 gonna help create more scoring opportunities for Kobels?
yeah, i think this is right. it creates for LAL the same type of potential redundancies that led to criticism of the wade/bron pairing, but -- for a lot of reasons (including age and health/durability) -- the latter has a lot more upside potential than the former. now if LA adds howard, that will help, but as i say, a lot depends on health and durability. and yeah, kobe may decline fast.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
wait, bynum for someone besides howard? i'm a little behind the news today.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
which means that the lakers would've traded their two best big men, absorbed the core of last year's 7th seed, and added a 33 year old kobe bryant
well done?
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
the bynum thing is just john hollinger's speculation as to how paul, gasol, scola and martin can still be involved in a deal that will be in any way significantly different than the nixed trade
odom stays in LA as part of this deal?
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
so that would be odom -- WORLD PEACE -- bynum -- kobE -- CP3
ehhhhh . . . yeah, i guess.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
no, bynum would be leaving
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
the parameters of this deal are unclear to me. bynum leaving for anything less than howard has to be a big disappointment to LA, since they have nothing left to offer the magic, i assume.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
if the Magic lose howard they might as well just create animatronic fans to attend teh games
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
odom was sulking, last I heard
― Aimless, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
he'll get over it
cuz he's sleeping w/ a Kardashian
well they would be getting back okafor, so in hollinger's theoretical deal their line up would look like
paul-bryant-world peace-odom-okafor
w/ no bench to speak of
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
again, this is just hollinger speculating on how the deal could go through and involve the hornets getting back a good, young player
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
honestly i think that the nets would trump whatever deal the lakers could put up if all they had to offer was bynum anyway
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. okafor's okay. he's no dwight howard, and he offers nothing that the magic would want for dwight howard.
that LAL lineup isn't too scary to me, especially with no bench.
odom was sulking, last I heard― Aimless, Saturday, December 10, 2011 ________________________________he'll get over it― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, December 10, 2011
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― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, December 10, 2011
he will! here's how: kobe bryant will say to him, "shut the f--k up, lamar odom."
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
i'm pretty sure odom, who will continue to be paid millions of dollars to play basketball professionally in los angeles, will get over it
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
meanwhile, the hornets
jackmartinarizascolabynum
this is a playoff team
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
honestly tho, on the one hand the lakers would be crazy to send out gasol and bynum and get back anyone besides howard, but on the other, i don't see how this deal goes through otherwise. there's no one of consequence left to trade besides bynum.
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
The Lakers (read: Kupchak) seem to think that Kobe's knees can make it through the shortened season and maybe they can steal one last title before the major rebuilding phase starts.
― Aimless, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
― v-shasty, Saturday, December 10, 2011 2:00 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
makes sense
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
― v-shasty, Saturday, December 10, 2011 2:15 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
guess the lakers figured they just didnt have the pieces to get howard
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
anyway if theyre shipping gasol and bynum for paul and okafor, lol lakers
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
well idk, you have to think that gasol and bynum would trump any deal for howard, right?
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
eh who knows, once again its not really young players draft picks and cap relief
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
WojYahooNBA Adrian WojnarowskiKnicks have waived Chauncey Billups under amnesty provision.
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
feel like if howard gets moved the magic will get a major haul, im trying to recall when a player of his caliber got traded, and not some bullshit sign n trade ala bron but a real trade
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
ESPNSteinLine Marc Stein Most recent construction of CP3 trade, sources say, does indeed still send Odom to NOH. Hornets want him as much as Martin/Scola, even ...3 minutes ago
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
this guy the hornets gm i can only conclude is a frickin idiot
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
this guy the hornets gm i can only conclude is trolling the fuck out of david stern
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
chadfordinsider Chad FordLots of speculation that Emeka Okafor is in the new CP3 deal. Source says he is not part of trade.
so idg what's even going on
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'm impressed by how well Pistons did on Hamilton's buy-out. He took $8 million while owed $25 million. Also, since they didn't use their amnesty on him, they could ditch Gordon or Charlie V. now or in the future and be seriously under the cap.
Of course, they'd have to use that space in a trade because nobody better than Ben or Charlie is signing as a free agent.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, the CP3 trade is moving too fast, but it all seems to point to two things (to me): (a) LAL will lose a lot of the big size that's served them well in their recent championship seasons (okafur just doesn't impress me as equal to the bigs the lakers would be losing) and (b) they won't have enough left over, after the trade, to offer to the magic for dwight howard.
on balance, this seems like a bad deal for LAL.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
i still think the best match for the magic is... the bulls
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
stop it!
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
dwight howard will be a perfect fit for the NYNets.
i mean they're the only team that can keep their best player and still offer the magic anything halfway decent
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
i guess a third team can always be roped in
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah besides bron straight up bulls prob make the most sense
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
god damn billups is being hella cunty
WojYahooNBA Adrian WojnarowskiFor teams considering claim on Chauncey Billups, he tells Y!: "A leader can be as disruptive as he can be productive..This is about me now."
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
u go girl
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
you mean lebron for the ENTIRE BULLS TEAM? seems fair.
yeah, just saw that line from billups. he might just force his way to a contender (i assume miami, to stick it to the NYK).
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol c'mon dawg
WojYahooNBA Adrian WojnarowskiBillups: "People take my kindness and professionalism for weakness. They think I’ll be OK with (getting claimed). I won’t be OK with this."
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
lmao some shit team should claim him just cause
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZTNgAs4Fc&ob=av3n
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I hope one of the teams that need to make salary floor claim him and park him on the bench as he rots away his last good year.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
good being relative, as he's been crazy overrated for years.
billups has done enough of the right things at the right times and been a pro forever. I want to cut him some slack on this. No fun being kicked down the road.
― Aimless, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol. yeah, be the team that -- in one swift move -- ENDS CHAUNCEY BILLUPS' CAREER.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link